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If you’re a parent or have a much younger sibling, nephew or neighbor, you’ve probably noticed that your child or little friend knows as much or more about your iPhone and computer than you do. Since kids are so well-versed in technology thanks to online games, the Wii, and personal, portable multimedia devices designed just for them, why should we jip them out of using technology in the classroom too? Cutting edge technology isn’t just for the online college campus: here are 10 amazing tech trends in elementary education

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10 Amazing, Emerging Tech Trends in Elementary Education

Autism is a top news story causing debates in health care, education, childhood development and scientific research, but it’s a condition that’s been affecting people for possibly centuries. While experts argue over the causes of autism, other researchers are speculating over certain cases that may mean some of history’s brightest thinkers were autistic at some level

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30 Famous Thinkers Believed to Be Autistic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 CSU, Chico Composer Russ Burnham and Poet Troy Jollimore Present Music and Poetry Performance Russ Burnham, Department of Music, an accomplished composer and clarinetist, has long been interested in the music of poetry. He has previously written songs based on poems by well-known American poets, as well as local poets George Keithley and Sally McNall. He heard Troy Jollimore, Department of Philosophy, read from his prize-winning book, “Tom Thomson in Purgatory,” and was inspired to team with Jollimore in a music/poetry event.

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CSU, Chico Composer Russ Burnham and Poet Troy Jollimore Present Music and Poetry Performance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Margaret DuFon English Department 530-898-6151 Visiting Artist to Speak on Art, Social Psychology and Contemplative Practice The Faculty Initiative for Transformative Learning (FITL), a faculty learning community at California State University, Chico, is bringing artist and professor Anne Beffel to Chico on Monday, Sept.

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Visiting Artist to Speak on Art, Social Psychology and Contemplative Practice

“I’ll be out of bed in five minutes,” is not a true statement because it’s a promise not meant to be kept. It actually means, “go away, I’m sleeping, I’ll say what I need to get rid of you.” “Your call is very important to us,” is not a true statement either. The truth is self-evident

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Little lies and small promises

In the July-August 2010 edition of the Journal of Pharmacy Technology , Charles Peterson, David Scott, Ann Rathke, Patricia Killingsworth and George Hill describe a telepharmacy model where a central site processes orders for 9 North Dakota CAHs, where 24/7 pharmacist review of medication orders was not affordable before: Background: Smaller, critical access hospitals continue to be challenged in finding sufficient pharmacist staffing to deliver quality pharmacy services. Innovative solutions are being explored, including use of technology, to address the problem of access to pharmacy services in remote rural areas. Objective: To describe a new telepharmacy model that is being developed in North Dakota; the model establishes a central order entry site (COE site) that provides 24-hour pharmacist staffing and telepharmacy services to rural critical access hospitals within the state

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Central Order Entry Site Makes 24/7 Review Affordable for 9 North Dakota Critical Access Hospitals

Filipino community organizations and a leading state nurses association are charging San Francisco hospital California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) with “systematic discrimination,” due its reported ongoing practice of discouraging the employment of Filipino nurses. In a press release issued on August 19, the California Nurses Association (CNA), an advocacy group comprised of healthcare professionals like San Francisco registered nurse s and San Jose RN s, announced it had filed a complaint with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.

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Major San Francisco Hospital Charged With Discrimination by California Nurses Association and Filipino Community Groups

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2010 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Larry Langwell Coordinator, Office of Veterans’ Affairs 530-898-5911 CSU, Chico Named Military Friendly School for 2011 California State University, Chico has been named a Military Friendly School for 2011 by G.I. Jobs magazine, the premier publication for people making the transition from the military to civilian work, training or education.

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CSU, Chico Named Military Friendly School for 2011

Tim Landis of Illinois’ State Journal-Register writes about a new outpatient pharmacy that opened in Illinois where the owner might convert it to a telepharmacy soon thanks to new legislation in the state.

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Illinois Added to the 9+ States which Provide for Outpatient Telepharmacies, Fills Rural Pharmacy Gap

Training a sales force is a lot like training a dog.  When you want to promote a certain kind of behavior, you incentivize it.  When you want to discourage a kind of behavior, you punish those who perpetrate it.  Of course, like most things, training a sales force is easier said than done.  If you find that your workers are not delivering the results that you are looking for, then you are going to want to read through this article with a great amount of care.  With any luck, it is going to teach you how to motivate your workers for success. The first thing that you are going to have to do, here, is make the stakes known.  If you truly expect your workers to work their hardest, then you are going to have to be entirely up front when it comes to a variety of things.  Your payment structure is going to have to be set in stone, and you are going to have to make all of that information known from the very get go.  While you may not want your workers to become too obsessed with money, that is going to happen if you do not give them all of the information that they need about their payment structure.  If your workers are working for a commission, then you are going to have to make doubly certain that they understand the terms of their commissions, how they get them, and the like.  The essential moral of the story, here, is that you have to be proactive and forthcoming when it comes to issues of money. Moving on, here, you are going to want to develop some kind of protocol for exemplifying good work.  Maybe you can hang an employee of the month photo in your break room?  Maybe you can have a spotlight section in your weekly newsletter?  Maybe you can simply pull that person aside and treat them to a nice lunch at a restaurant.  Whatever you decide, you should have some way of congratulating your best workers for their hard work.  Having worked for a company that adopted this kind of system for the most part, I can tell you personally that it works out rather well at the end of the day

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Tips For Motivating A Sales Force

We all think of Lady Gaga as a real envelope pusher: she's doing new things in music, performance, and with videos right now; her costumes are otherworldly; and she refuses to be tagged as any kind of “type” at all. Whether or not you like her music, she's a good inspiration for anyone who's feeling frustrated by conventions or who just needs a pick-me-up after a tough day at school or work. But she's not the only eccentric in music history.

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Before There Was Gaga: 10 Eccentric Entertainers Who Paved the Way

When jobs are scarce, many go back to school. Colleges and universities typically experience an increase in applications for both graduate and undergraduate programs when unemployment is high.

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Pharmacology, Gerontology Among Most-Searched Education Programs

Fortune Magazine’s annual list of Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies highlights corporations that are “shaking up their industries, growing fast, and, best of all, haven’t taken on a lot of debt”, according …

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21 Medical Companies Make Fortune’s List of 100 Fastest Growing Firms

Critics and fans, passersby and the media crave a battle, a scandal and heroic stories of winning and losing. Want to get written up on a tech blog? Just post a really angry rant about your competition

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Drop everything, we need you to perform in our circus

More than 800 California health clinics, hospitals and medical facilities in underserved urban and rural communities are set to be connected via a pioneering broadband network known as California Telehealth Network (CTN), announced Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, state health officials and the United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at a press conference held Tuesday, Aug. 15, at UC Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento. Described as the “the largest single-state grant award of its kind,” the California Telehealth Network is designed to allow for the safe, reliable and efficient digital transfer of patient information, medical data and other information to facilities that may currently lack the resources for such telemedicine networks, or are located in remote areas throughout the state.

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New Telehealth Broadband Network Set to Connect More than 800 California Medical Facilities

Nature of Reseach : Program Evaluation of The Commonwealth Seminar, a Barr Foundation-funded program designed to provide legislative training, networking opportunities with top policymakers, and public service job opportunities for diverse leaders in Massachusetts.

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Program Evaluation of The Commonwealth Seminar-Undergraduate Opportunity

I flew into LAX yesterday and drove to Malibu last night – today I speak at Pepperdine’s MBA orientation.  I’ve done this type of thing before and have really enjoyed it. I’ll be back next week – today I’m hanging out on one of the most beautiful campuses I’ve been to with some really cool people (This morning I got up early and walked the “horseshoe” which was very hilly… I saw some fun animals (deer, rabbits, etc.) and amazing trees and greenery (hey, I live in Utah – CA is really quite amazing))

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Today, Hadar Susskind, J Street’s Vice President for Policy and Strategy, released the following statement upon the announcement of direct talks between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority: J Street welcomes today’s announcement of direct talks between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, with the United States closely shepherding the process. We applaud President Obama’s leadership and the work of Secretary Clinton and Senator Mitchell in bringing the parties to the table

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Statement on Announcement of Direct Talks

One approach to innovation and brainstorming is to wait for the muse to appear, to hope that it alights on your shoulder, to be ready to write down whatever comes to you. The other is to seek it out, will it to appear, train it to arrive on time and on command.

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Finding inspiration instead of it finding you

It was not too long ago that it was common for people to go off to college and find the person they were going to marry and spend the rest of their lives with. That storybook ending does not seem to exist anymore on college campuses.

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Why Are Relationships Becoming Extinct on College Campuses?